Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Everybody in the photographs – they may well be pickled (8) 5. Being dull, the seaman is after a doctor (4)

9. American prison ship (4)

10. Shows resilience about permitted limits (8)

11. Look in the mine for one who takes flight (5)

12. The main course? (7)

13. Previous feats exceeded – as the result of slipped discs? (6,7)

18. To have a reciprocal effect on carbon in nitrate solution (8)

19. Credit for a very short time (4)

20. Italian city removes article from revised treatise (7)

21. Charge with the cost of French piece (5)

22. To handle dough, we hear, is a necessity (4)

23. Made leisurely progress and kept turning after a short way (8)

DOWN

2. One who pesters the long-distance runner (7) 3. Could it be a record of lumberjacks’ output? (7) 4. The rust he creates destroys the jewel box (8,5)

6. Sounds like private acrimony (7) 7. Moreover the second teams need internal direction (7)

8. Intricate design of the Hebrew law! (6)

13. He composed many works for the country, we hear (7)

14. Brief statement removed from the file (7)

15. One way out when some of the mess sergeants return (6)

16. Nothing at breakfast, for instance, that goes in the porridge (7)

17. Refuse to show signs of senility (7)